Clare Winkel has worked in the food industry since 1987, and has been HACCP training since 1995, auditing since 2004 in Australia, Ireland, United Kingdom and the USA.  Clare has consulted, trained & audited in the following areas: seafood harvesting, farming and processing, meat processing - including wild game harvest, food service, fresh cut, food packaging, storage and distribution. 

From 2006 to 2008 Clare lived in a one street fishing village on the east coast of Ireland while she was a researcher on the EU project STREPS no FP6- 518451 “Developing a Stakeholders Guide on the vulnerability of food and feed chains to dangerous agents and substances”, which concluded with the development of a new risk assessment method to enable the farmed Atlantic Salmon supply chain to be assessed for vulnerabilities to food safety contaminants, including the assessment of traceability, documentation & failure to detect contaminants.  

As part of her MBA (Seafood Management) Clare completed a dissertation on “A review of methods of management & marketing of the community and biological sustainability relevant to maximising the fishery potential“ using the Torres Strait (a northern Australian indigenous managed) rock lobster and sea cucumber fisheries as case studies.  This was based on her training work with the indigenous seafood processors in the Torres Strait.